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nuraghe

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nuraghe
Prehistoric round towers and agglomerations of stone huts peculiar to Sardinia.


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Antioco, con sosta a Carbonia e rientro a Cagliari per via diretta da Iglesias--di poi, prosegue l'iter verso nord per la Carlo Felice, avendo occasione di visitare il nuraghe Piscu, sfiorando Monastir, per dirigersi verso Mandas, di li a Nuoro, onde effettuera le visite a Dorgali, Cala Gonne, Orosei.
brought the (carbon-dated) Nuraghe of Barumini, Sardinia as Jacquetta Hawkes talks about the "''tombe di giganti'' in which the inhabitants of the nuraghi buried their dead.
Evidence of these various invaders' influence can be seen all over the island, but perhaps the most unusual and earliest are the cone-like fortresses, called Nuraghe, built by early settlers around 1500BC.
 
 
 
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